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Definition of 'creeping' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) crawl, crawling, creep, creeping
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
"a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"


Definition of 'creeping' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) creeping
crawling, or moving close to the ground

2. (adj) creeping
growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils

3.  creeping
of Creep


Definition of 'creeping' The Standard Electrical Dictionary 

1.  creeping
A phenomenon of capillarity, often annoying in battery jars. The solution, by capillarity, rises a little distance up the sides, evaporates, and as it dries more creeps up through it, and to a point a little above it. This action is repeated until a layer of the salts may form over the top of the vessel. To avoid it, paraffine is often applied to the edges of the cup, or a layer of oil, often linseed oil, is poured on the battery solution,



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